3i6 NATURAL GRASSES. 35. 



crcafed. Upon the founder better parts, the 

 rufhcs and rough grafs arc, fometimes, made 

 into a kind of coarfe ha}', for whiter -foddet 

 for flore-cattlc. 



The common rental price of meadow-land 

 is, from five lliiliings to ten Ihillings an acre ; 

 and, in their prefent Hate, it is their fuH rental 

 value ; taking one year with another : in a 

 very dry feafon they are frequently, on a par, 

 worth ten Shillings an acre to a farmer ; 

 paflurage of any kind being, in that cafe, fin- 

 gularly valuable in Norfolk ; but, in a com- 

 mon year, they are not, in their prefent flate, 

 1 apprehend, worth, on a par, more than 

 fevcn ihillings an acre. 



If we confider the natural fituation, and the 

 prefent flate of the Norfolk meadows, the 

 following IMPROVEMENTS fpontancoufly offer 

 themfelves. 



1. Draining the furface and fubflratum from 

 fuperfluous moifturc. 



2. Clearing and levelling the furface- 

 mould, and incrcafing its contexture and firm- 

 ness. 



3. Improving the (quality of the pro- 

 duce, by GRAss-SEEDSj or, by planting. 



4. h\- 

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